Sentences with phrase «education committee chair last»

«Education helps us to do our jobs more thoroughly,» says Adams, who served as Education Committee chair last year.

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The highlight of the select committees sees the chairs of the country's top exam marking boards face the education committee to answer for the English GCSE shambles last year that saw pupils taking the exam in the summer marked differently to those in January.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

ALBANY — Senate higher education committee chair Ken LaValle released a report Wednesday detailing legislative recommendations for combating sexual assaults on college campuses, some of which overlap with changes Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed last week for SUNY.

During a Capital Tonight interview last night, Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan recognized the «triple threat» faced by the state, financially speaking, at the moment: Lower than expected PIT revenues, a $ 4 billion deficit and the feds planning to do «who knows what» when it comes to health care reform.

Senate education committee chair John Flanagan told Capital last week that the receivership plan would be a «lighting rod,» particularly because he expected pushback from other unions that would see the proposal as a threat to collective bargaining rights writ large.

Council members and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last tEducation Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last teducation services over the last two years.

At separate news conferences last week, both the Committee for Education Funding, an umbrella group in the field, and Representative Augustus F. Hawkins, the California Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, unveiled proposals that would double the department's budget in fiscal 1991.

For example, as pointed out last year by Republican John Kline of Minnesota, an ESSA co-author and former chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, «Arizona and New Hampshire recently passed laws that violate ESSA by permitting individual school districts to choose which assessments to administer.»

In a letter last month to Representative Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House education committee, 13 House Republicans urged that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program be preserved.

For the last few weeks, Education Committee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeEducation Committee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeCommittee Chairs Rep. Paul Boyer and Sen. Sylvia Allen have invited teachers to share their experiences in Arizona's public education system with committeeeducation system with committeecommittee members.

Neil Carmichael, the former chair of the education select committee who lost his seat as an MP at the last election, has been appointed a senior adviser at the political lobbying firm PLMR.

The latest skirmish was last week's House education committee hearing where Chair John Kline (R - MN) sharply critiqued the Department of Education's (ED's) draft accountability regulations for proposing requirements he deemed best left teducation committee hearing where Chair John Kline (R - MN) sharply critiqued the Department of Education's (ED's) draft accountability regulations for proposing requirements he deemed best left tEducation's (ED's) draft accountability regulations for proposing requirements he deemed best left to states.

Romero, who served last year as chair of the Senate Education Committee, held considerable power over school policy issues while in office.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R - Fond du Lac) chairs the Assembly Education Committee — and his office is responsible for a bill that just started making the rounds for signatures at the State Capitol last week, titled the «Teacher Protection Act.»

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

Last week Senator Blanche Lincoln (D - AR) became chairman of the Agriculture Committee, after Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), the previous chair, accepted the gavel at the Health, Labor, Education and Pension Committee (vacated by the passing of Ted Kennedy).

Last year she was the committee's vice chair for education.